Colonel Melanie Lake - CFUW Etobicoke
Thu, Oct 15
|Fairfield Seniors Centre
Join CFUW Etobicoke to hear from Colonel Melanie Lake, who in 2024 was named one of Canada’s Top Women in Defence.
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT
Fairfield Seniors Centre, 80 Lothian Ave, Etobicoke, ON M8Z 4K5, Canada
About the event
Join CFUW Etobicoke for an evening of conversation with Colonel Melanie Lake, who in 2024 was named one of Canada’s Top Women in Defence.
Colonel Lake graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Defence Studies. She has served in all three Combat Engineer Regiments in Canada. She deployed to Afghanistan three times under NATO’s International Security Assistance Force.
She currently serves as the Joint Force Engineer for CAF’s new Joint Force Command and recently completed her 3-year term as Deputy Chair of the NATO Committee on Gender Perspective Executive Committee and is a member of the Women in International Security-Canada Advisory Council. In 2024, she was named one of Canada’s Top Women in Defence.
More info: https://www.cfuwetobicoke.ca/program-and-upcoming-events/speaker-series-meetings/